A shooting Wednesday morning at a light-rail yard near downtown San Jose left nine people dead, including the gunman. Here’s what is known so far: • The shooting was first reported at 6:34 a.m. at a Valley Transportation Authority control center at 101 W. Younger Ave., with multiple 911 calls to law enforcement. • Nine people are dead, including the gunman, and multiple people are injured. Santa Clara County sheriff’s officials said the shooter was a VTA employee, identified in multiple published reports as Samuel J. Cassidy, 57. • VTA employees are among the dead and injured. • The facility was evacuated. It is a VTA control center, described as a hub that stores multiple VTA trains, and is also a maintenance yard. (…) Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez praised Valley Transportation Authority employees for their service following the mass shooting at the agency’s railyard in San Jose. “These folks were heroes during COVID 19. The buses never stopped running. VTA didn’t stop running. They just kept at work, and now we’re really calling on them to be heroes a second time to survive such a terrible, terrible tragedy,” Chavez said. Sheriff’s spokesman Deputy Russell Davis said the attack resulted in “multiple major injuries” and the victims included VTA employees. At least eight people were killed. Authorities did not release any of the victims’ names. Davis said he did not know the type of weapon used. 12:29 p.m. Feinstein decries gun culture: California Sen. Dianne Feinstein told reporters on Capitol Hill today that the shooting is evidence of a problematic gun culture in the U.S. “We’ve become a nation preoccupied with guns, and it’s a bad thing, because they are more misused than used properly, if there is a proper way to use a weapon to kill somebody,” she said. “But the innocent people are what I feel for.”
via sfchronicle: San Jose shooting: Nine dead, including gunman, who was a VTA employee